May 5, 2010 was declared a day of general strike<\/b> and march to the Parliament<\/b> by GSEE,<\/b> ADEDY<\/b> and PAME. <\/p>\n
A few days earlier the Papandreou<\/b> government had announced severe economic austerity measures as part of its response to the economic crisis that erupted in early 2010. <\/p>\n
The burglary<\/b> of a branch of the Bank<\/b> Marfin-Egnatia in Athens, often referred to as the Marfin tragedy<\/b>, took place on 5 May 2010 during demonstrations against the economic measures for the signing of the loan agreement. <\/p>\n
A group of unidentified people threw monotov cocktails<\/b> at the bank while some 25-30 employees were inside. <\/b>Most managed to escape, five people were rescued by the fire department and three people died of asphyxiation due to toxic fumes and thick smoke. <\/b><\/p>\n
The identity of the perpetrators of the attack has not been confirmed so far. <\/b>In 2013, bank executives were convicted of the negligent homicide<\/b> of three employees, the bodily injuries of 21 other employees, and multiple failures in fire safety measures and staff training.<\/p>\n
Sixteen years have passed since that dark day when paranoids<\/b> set Marfin on fire and burned the employees alive. The dead<\/b> were wept over by their relatives, the state did its duty with a marble slab, the insane have been vandalizing<\/b> it at every opportunity ever since – they are the same ones who demand statues, national holidays and scaffolding, but for other dead people.<\/p>\n
Perhaps we have no other such blatant example<\/b> of pure insensitivity to the dead<\/b>: anyone who dies in an accident, in a perverse accident, automatically becomes a hero, a collective mourner; anyone killed by a Molotov cocktail becomes a topic of discussion among family and friends. There are no tears left over, no memory, no mother-symbol to get swept up by the channels, social media, European forums.<\/b><\/p>\n
The dead from Molotov cocktails have no representatives, no supporters, no symbols.<\/b> Molotov cocktails are long gone, as long as you know where to stand when they fall,<\/b> said – and worse, meant it – the former prime minister Alexis Tsipras,<\/b> thus giving absolution to the murderers of 35-year-old Paraskevi Zoulia, 36-year-old Epaminondas Tsakalis and 32-year-old pregnant Angeliki Papathanasopoulou, who died tragically by suffocation at the bank’s branch on Stadiou Street.<\/b><\/p>\n
Sixteen years later, that crime remains unsolved<\/b> to remind an increasing number of people that the country’s history endures and tolerates some pages written in blood, which fades quickly and leaves no imprint – as if nothing ever happened…<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The 5th of May 2010 was declared a day of general strike and march to the Parliament by the GSEE, ADEDY and PAME.
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